Queen Noor

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On June 15, 1215, King John signed the Magna Carta at Runnymede, England, granting his barons more liberty. In 1752 Benjamin Franklin demonstrated the relationship between lightning and electricity when he launched a kite into a storm in Philadelphia. In 1777 France's Marquis de Lafayette arrived in South Carolina to help the American colonists in their battle for independence. In 1805 William Butler Ogden, first mayor of Chicago, was born in Walton, N.Y. In 1831 Cook County was organized.

On June 15, 1752, Benjamin Franklin demonstrated the relationship between lightning and electricity by flying a kite in a Philadelphia storm. In 1775 George Washington accepted command of the Continental Army. In 1777 France's Marquis de Lafayette arrived in South Carolina to help the American colonists in their battle for independence. In 1805 William Butler Ogden, Chicago's first mayor, was born in Walton, N. Y. In 1846 the U.S. and Britain signed a treaty settling the Canadian boundary in the Pacific Northwest.

More than 1,500 supporters packed Symphony Center last Thursday evening for Image 2002, the 76th annual Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Fashion Show. To the strains of the Allen Kaye Orchestra, dozens of Chicago celebrities and corporate leaders strutted down the runway to model the latest in clothing and jewelry on behalf of the medical center, which plans to use the funds raised to enlarge and upgrade the Rush Cancer Institute Outpatient Clinic. Among the VIP models were Jacqueline S. Harris, of the Jacqueline S. Harris Foundation; Lt. Gov. Corinne Wood; WBBM-Ch.

Ronald McDonald, the one and only, flashed a big grin while posing for photos with Queen Noor of Jordan, Harvard pediatric oncologist Judah Folkman and adoption service pioneer Dawn Degenhardt, all of whom were recipients of the fast-food chain's awards for improving children's lives. They'd gathered at McCormick Place for a celebration that began with a lavishly catered reception and heated up later at the Arie Crown when Celine Dion, Enrique Iglesias and other stars (some of whom showed up for a photo op the day before)

Music mogul Sean "P. Diddy" Combs has reduced the price of his 12-story, triple "quadplex" mansion on Park Avenue in Manhattan to $16 million from $17.5 million, according to reports. The man formerly known as "Puff Daddy" paid $12 million for the building at 813 Park Ave., which was originally constructed as a five-story building in 1898 but expanded by developers in the 1980s to 12 stories. By the 1980s, another developer had converted the 12-unit building into three quadplex apartments, each with four floors and its own elevator off the common lobby.

Politics and family Two weeks later, traveling with her from London to Amman (on her return from the U.S.), I found her poised and brisk, looking forward to seeing her children and husband again. She often was compared to the late Grace Kelly, another cooly beautiful American who married royalty, but Grace Kelly was never at the center of such a crisis. Before the plane landed in Amman, she briefed her staff, asking for a new computer to be linked up, a meeting with evacuee workers to be arranged, certain papers to be on her desk by the next morning.